“It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions” WarDecisionDepressionMajorsBaseballInstitutionsCourtSupremeLastingSupreme CourtCourt Decision Author:Art Rust, Jr.
“What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then as a litigator litigating and winning major cases in front of the Supreme Court over and over and over again.” LightHappensLawWinningCasesFrontsMajorsCourtShiningSupremeEndeavorSupreme CourtClerksLitigators Author:Ted Cruz
“In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme being, the one and only head god, a habit lent to them by monotheism.” WorldGodGroupsHabitMajorsSupremeNativeSupreme BeingMonotheismTriosDuos Book:Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook Source: Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook
“When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.” IfsFeelsArtEnoughHandsLove IsCenturyMinesPoetHolyMajorsSupremeIdolatryNineteenth CenturyCromwell Book:Three Plays for Puritans Source: Three Plays for Puritans
“The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the pooling of family and community resources into shops and businesses, but political pressure for government handouts. Second, the Great Society failed to anticipate the perverse side-effects of handing money out to people who have done nothing to earn it. Third, while the Great Society was showering money on the poor, the Supreme Court was with childlike glee smashing to bits traditional methods of maintaining law and order.” PeopleFirstsSelfReasonDoneGovernmentLawPoliticalOrderThreeBitsSidesCommunityPoorEffectsMajorsResourcesOrganizationThirdsPressureMethodCourtSupremeTraditionalAdministrationShopsSupreme CourtMaintainingJohnsonAnticipateChildlikeLaw And OrderGleeSide EffectsSmashingHandoutsGreat Society Author:David Frum
“In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled President Obama's healthcare mandate is constitutional. This is a major victory for President Obama, who spent three years promoting it, and a major setback for Mitt Romney, who spent three years creating it.” YearsThreePresidentDecisionVictoryCreatingMajorsCourtSupremePresident ObamaThree YearsHealthcareSupreme CourtPromotingRomneySetbackMandatesLandmarks Author:Jay Leno
“The Ranger who trained me at the time was [American] Major Buck Kernan, who became Supreme Allied Commander. I hadn't spoken to him in a few years, but he reached out to me and said, "I'm so proud of you."” YearsSaidProudMajorsSupremeCommandersBucksRangersProud Of You Author:Scott Raab
“The US cannot be brought to the World Court for major crimes, for example the supreme international crime, invasion, or violation of the UN Charter, or violation of the Genocide Convention, these are things the US is exempt from, because they exempted themselves from being subjected to international treaties in World Court proceedings.” WorldCrimeExampleMajorsCourtInternationalSupremeGenocideConventionsInvasionViolationTreatiesProceedingCharter Author:Noam Chomsky